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Fewer than 30 minutes to go until the campaign rally, and the television wouldn’t play a DVD disc. Hundreds of students from as many as 10 other schools already were filtering into the Leland Public School gym, awaiting the start of a biennial mock election, and Jermiah Wakeman had to deal with last-minute technical problems. But if there were any glitches once Thursday’s rally began, they went unnoticed.
Tina VanThomme thought her customers might appreciate the ability to buy fresh fruits and vegetables beyond the normal hours of Plant Masters of Suttons Bay, her Leelanau County business. So VanThomme this summer put a toolbox with change out near a stand and offered tomatoes, corn and other produce. Passersby could help themselves and make change in the box, and it was a hit with customers. But sometime Saturday night, the entire box vanished.
The field for Northport Public School’s superintendent position has been narrowed to five candidates.
Harnessing the wind to help meet our need for electrical power seems like such a simple, pollution-free idea.
At first glance Proposal 1, the “medicinal marijuana” initiative, seems like an effort to turn back the clock to the 1970s and ’80s, when legalizing or decriminalizing the use of marijuana was a galvanizing …
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - Federal officials are taking another look at proposed rules designed to contain a fish-killing virus in the Great Lakes region after critics said they were unreasonable.
Jesse Brocklehurst attends school in the morning, works from noon until 5 p.m. and doesn’t have his own car. The chances he might make it to the polls Tuesday before they close, he acknowledges, aren’t very good. Enter Josh Veith.
An East Bay Township woman who allegedly caused a traffic crash that killed a downstate woman faces criminal charges.
It’s going to be hectic come Tuesday. Record numbers of regional voters are expected to participate on Election Day, when they’ll be among five million citizens likely to cast ballots in Michigan. Local election officials said they’ve geared up for the coming onslaught, and it’s a movement that’s underway, in some cases.
Former state conservation officer Kevin Lockman will be sentenced for receiving and concealing stolen property next week. Lockman, 35, of Boyne City, will appear Nov. 7 before 33rd Circuit Court Judge Richard Pajtas in Charlevoix. He pleaded guilty to receiving and concealing stolen property between $200 and $1,000, a misdemeanor.